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It is now time for crab

Gonna be checking out Another Crab's Treasure for a little bit! Come hang out!

#pickle streams

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A small batch of beetles! I made them several months ago, but never got a chance to pick ‘em up after they were fired until now.

#beebos..... #Q.Q

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Huge fan of when my speech patterns rub off on people enjoy when thay happens

#Q.Q

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the arc of the universe is long but it bends towards crabs

#hell yea

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Raz truly is one of the funniest video game characters of all time. His ability to do platforming parkour is explained by the fact that he was raised in a circus. He’s a psychic prodigy. He thought his dad hated psychics but his dad is a psychic. He broke into a government camp in an attempt to get employed as a secret agent and it worked. He has canonically set squirrels on fire. His grandma is a former mass murderer. He’s addicted to giving people therapy and duking it out with the manifestations of their problems. He saves the day 3 times in the span of a week. He’s friends with a rat. He’s 10 years old.

#YEAH #psychonauts spoilers #psychonauts 2 spoilers #just in case???

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Okay to reblog to help sample size!f

#I agree with half a cake #but also yeah up to them

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as a little boy i could only dream.... now as a young woman i can finally start my new job as an anvil

#Q.Q

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hi. i made some images.

feel free to take them and use for whatever you may need them for. no credit required

#was thinking about this post today so I went to go dig it up from my likes

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Honestly? My main piece of advice for writing well-rounded characters is to make them a little bit lame. No real living person is 100% cool and suave 100% of the time. Everyone's a little awkward sometimes, or gets too excited about something goofy, or has a silly fear, or laughs about stupid things. Being a bit of a loser is an incurable part of the human condition. Utilize that in your writing.

#Q.Q

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the longer i stay in fandom, the longer i think a huge amount of bad takes and discourse come from an... abundance of identifying with a character

to be clear, i don't think it's bad to identify with a character. far from it! i think that's part of what makes fiction so powerful.

and it's only logical people often attach to a blorbo because they're just like me, for real. a person will see some element of themselves-- their race, their gender, their sexuality, their hobbies, their family life, their specific flavour of neurodivergence-- and something just resonates. it gives them a way to explore and name this important part of themselves, a part they maybe didn't even know existed before it.

and everything is well and good until some split between them and the character shows up

because of course, no character, except an explicit self-insert written by yourself, will ever be a perfect 1:1 for your own experiences. so sooner or later-- maybe in canon, maybe in a fanwork-- your blorbo diverges from your lived experience in a huge way.

I think this is why shipping culture in particular gets so toxic. While it is by no means the only way to indulge with shipping, a significant portion is 'if i was in that character's shoes, i would choose X'. the fight becomes for your own self-identity.

but this gets expanded in other ways. a character who is revealed to be black when the majority of the fandom had just assumed they were white. or revealed to be queer, or maybe the 'wrong' flavour of queer. or fuck, even some more innocuous part of their backstory, one that's nonetheless so meaningful for SOMEONE, but now it feels like the story is saying, fuck you, we're doing something else

i don't know. i just feel acknowledging this perceived-attack-on-identity helps me understand why people react it what seems to be such outsized way to canon and fanworks alike.

at the same time, i think it's a really important thing to check in yourself.

it's nice, to see a character who you identify with. who resonates with for being like you. but it's also nice to acknowledge and appreciate the way characters are not like you at All. how great it is to get insight into this totally different lived experience. and to muse on how wonderful that recognition might be for someone who does have that background.

#there is definitely something about the balance of #it's good that you resonate with this character that you make them your own almost #but also realizing that this is also not necessarily JUST *your* character #and that other interpretations exist #and finding some kinda harmony in that #and yeah I don't think it's appropriate to lash out if you can't find that balance

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Competitive Pokemon is a Hell of my Own Making

So I fell into the competitive pokemon hole again and the new rules are happening in about a week, which means I gotta take apart my team and make it all over again. I'll be hanging out on my twitch stream if anyone wants to come by!

#pickle streams

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#yea

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aww, ten speed. being sweet, purring.

wait.... is she.....

oh my god. she is. she's.......

...cuddling the end of her own tail 🥺

#PEACE AND LOVE ON PLANET EARTH #Q.Q

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"What if you were hot like the manifestation of your psyche what then"

#morning reboogle #self rebagel

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#GOD

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Uh Oh, The One Other Guy Having The Same Problem As You Got Zero Replies To His Post On Reddit That He Made 5 Years Ago

#DEADASS THIS WAS ME THIS MORNING